Advocacy

Public Hearing about Artificial Intelligence – Brazilian Senate Committee (CTIA Commission 2023)

Participation in the panel “Impacts of the application of artificial intelligence in cybercrime and implications of policy formulation for the administration of the criminal justice system”, part of the Temporary Artificial Intelligence Commision from the Brazilian Senate.

Racism on the Internet: evidence-based public policy making

The seminar Racism on the Internet: evidence-based public policy making: organized by the Secretariat of Social Communication and the Ministry of Racial Equality, resulted in a policy recommendations document.

Anti-Racist Lenses to Regulate A.I. in Brazil

The document Lentes Antirracistas para Regular Inteligência Artificial no Brasil (Anti-Racist Lenses to Regulate A.I. in Brazil) includes an international benchmark of policy recommendations around mitigating algorithmic racism and essays from anti-racist and feminist researchers and activists. The output was targeted at policy makers and stakeholders members of different institutions.

Public Hearing about Artificial Intelligence – Brazilian Senate Committee (CJUSBIA Commission 2022)

Collaboration on the panel “Artificial intelligence and risks: biases and discrimination”, with the aim of providing input for the new bill on the matter. The following points were defended: interdisciplinary education and algorithmic literacy; attention to the differences between symbolic and connectionist perspectives, in defense of the role of domain experts; and the banning of applications with known high risk.

Public Hearing about Facial Recognition – Legislative Assembly of Bahia

Participation in a public hearing on facial recognition in Bahia, the first Brazilian state to implement the technology. We defended the immediate suspension of the use of technology, sharing data on costs, and police violence, and invited state legislators to discuss its ban.